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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on July 6, 2005
Community Development Journal 2005 40(3):356-358; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsi056
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Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market 2

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Pierre Bourdieu, Verso, 2003, 96 pp., ISBN 185984 6580, New Press, New York, USA.

Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) was a highly influential social scientist of the twentieth century, on a par with Marx, Durkheim and Weber of the nineteenth, and Foucault, Derrida and Habermas of his own century. Yet, the relevance and insights of these continental intellectuals is often missed and misunderstood in the pragmatic Anglo-American intellectual culture. If you read this short collection of trenchant essays as a starting point for entering Bourdieu's world, you can, however, see the virtue of theoretical thinking to practice. Despite . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Jenny Pearce, Professor

Director, International Centre for Participation Studies, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK; email: J.V.Pearce@Bradford.ac.uk


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